"To Tell the Truth: Tony Hoagland Through Three
Collections of Poems,"
a review by Ginger Murchison

William
Palmer

William
Palmer is a professor of English at Alma
College in central Michigan. He has published
poems and essays in The
Bellingham Review, Zone 3, Yankee,
The Christian Science Monitor, and Chicago Tribune. The second edition of his college
textbook Discovering Arguments: An
Introduction to Critical Thinking and Writing,
co-authored with Dean Memering, was published in
2005 by Prentice Hall.

Grace Cavalieri interviews professor/poet
William Palmer on The Poet and The Poem. This
program is available in streaming audio by
permission of MiPOradio.

"Telling the truth is hard," says
poet William Palmer, "but you can't get a
poem without it." Reading and discussing
poems from his latest publication, A
String of Blue Lights, he describes the
impetus for his poems, the place in him where
they start, and the process by which they move
from stories into truth.

Grace
Cavalieri is the
author of several books of poetry and produced
plays. She's produced The Poet and the
Poem on public radio, now entering its 29th
year. Among honors, Grace holds the Allen
Ginsberg Award for Poetry, A Paterson Prize for
Poetry, the Pen-Syndicated Fiction Award, the
Bordighera Poetry Award, the Folger's
Columbia Award. and CPB's Silver
Medal. Her latest book, What I Would do
For Love: Poems in the Voice of Mary
Wollstonecraft, 1759-1797 (Jacaranda
Press, 2004), is the basis for her new play,
Hyena in Petticoats, which received a
staged reading in NYC in March. Her forthcoming
book of poems Water on the Sun
will be published this Fall.